stereo setup question (looking for a reciever)

[gallagb]

hey all -
so- i've come by 8 Jensen Champion110 speakers

Features:
4" Woofer
30 mm Soft Dome Tweeter
Freq. Response : 80 Hz-20 kHz +/- 3dB
Nominal Impedance : 8 ohms
Sensitivity : 86 dB
Recommended Power : 15-65 Watts
Finish : Black Ash Vinyl
Dims : 9.25" H x 5.75" W x 7.75" D


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i know a fair ammount about sound and home theater and stereos...etc

what i'm looking for- is a good hint on what reciever to get to run all 8 of them throughout the house
i would really only want to run 2 seperate 'areas'

but- one of those areas would need to support 6 speakers
while the other one really would only need to support 2 of them

OR- i could do it to where there's just one area - and have it support all 8 speakers-

- how loud? not too loud-
but loud enough

how much $$$?
i'm fine w/ purchasing an older reciever to save $$
have no need for it to do anything other than stereo
say under 500 as a rough price point

what audio will i run through it?
mostly FM radio and a direct in from the computer for iTunes stuff (via airtunes mostly likely)
maybe a CD from time to time
definately a direct in from an iPod

so- 2-3 inputs would be great

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thanks for any ideas and input folks may have!

 

[gallagb]

guess posting @ 10:42 eastern @ night isn't the time to get stereo questions answered....

what about now? mid-day?

anyone around?

 

[joshmv]

They may make an 8 channel receiver but I haven't seen it, the closest would be a 7.1, where there are 7 channels for the regular speakers and the .1 is referring to the subwoofer channel which should have a crossover on it, only feeding it low frequencies (not good for regular speakers).

Jensen stuff, while being good value, is entry level equipment, so I would try and stay away from a really expensive receiver.

My suggestion might be to pick up 2 older 5 channel pioneer receivers since you're wanting to split the signal anyways. They are good receivers and you should be able to pick them up for about $150 a piece on ebay. If you used an ipod FM transmitter, you could get both of them to pick it up.

I'm not sure if that answered your question, but if you have any more, let me know.

Josh

 

[gallagb]

yea- i knew i didn't /don't want a 7.1 reciever- as they are pricy and stuff i don't want- as i just wanna run stuff stereo

what about when folks run stuff in houses-
typically they have a switch box type thing?
and select to run the same signal to various rooms

i know i've seen them- but am not positive- where you can have several rooms w/ sound @ the same time-
and all run off of one reciever

so the setup:
reciever >> switch box (that allows for several areas to have music @ the same time w/ the same volume level>> speakers

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btw- i know the jensens are low level speakers
i got them practically for free-

my real audio setup is the bose surround system-

which isn't "pro" but is good 'nuff